Tree removal in Bristol, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Bristol that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 14, 2024 and June 2, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,060 households live in Bristol. About two in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1940. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Bristol, averages 120 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 39 at or below 20°F.

Ice, snow and broken limbs

Source: NOAA Climate Normals

Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 5 electric utilities with service territory in Bucks County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and PECO Energy Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024